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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (June 26, 1903)
, ftmtflffK wwaayMaWB'WIItWWWatf Jf GERMS 01T DISEASES. They Are Now Eoing Harnessed by Medical Investigators. Horr Tincllll Arc IkoIiiIciI, TckIciI mul l'i'o)iiKnttil Important I'ui't l'liiyoil ly Ilornrii unit Uiilncxi I'Iuh, Special New York Lottor.l .CTpMIIS Is essentially 1 he nge of an i J titoxliis, extreme ciiHi'H of the "linlr of the (Joy" curing the bite. Svw (Jlseovi'rJeH ure constantly being fiiade, both of the Hpeellle germs causing eertnln diseases anil methods of utilizing tliem for Iheir own destriiellon. Jt Is well known thai If u person were shut up In u room for uti extended length of time where no fresh air wus allowed lo enter death would ensue be cause the air in the room, breathed over and over, would become charged with poisons given out by the body, TESTING ANTI-TOXIN HOUSE. nml there would soon be no fresh nir to feed upon. Jn the ease of a dis ease germ niueh tho same condition prevails. It must have fresh material to food upon, as the juices it throws off arc a certain poison to itself. Hence, if to tho blood of u person containing germs of u disease, a suftl eient quantity of the effete material furnished by tho germ itself be added, the small pest dies because it lias no fresh food, free from its own specific poison, upon w.hlch to feed. In the ease of many of our most com mon and virulent diseases the bacil lus lias been Isolated and for their treatment mi antitoxin linn been se cured. Nearly everyone is aware thnt the antitoxins in general use are ob tained from horses, and tho methods of scouring them are being constant ly Improved upon. Of course the first thing to bo considered is the isola tion of tho offending microbe from the thousands of different variety which surround it. This presupposes the fact that the wicked one is so well known as to be recognizable; that his portrait hangs in the germ rogues' gallery. After tho bacteria are removed from a sufferer, they nre more care fully cultivated thnn most plants, the nsual medium being bouillon prepnrcd from filtered, sterilized water and fresh beef. After Btnnding for n few hours, the bouillon la straiued, rcfll tercd and resterllized. For several clays, a process of reboiling, steriliz ing and filtering goea on in white dust-proof closets, by men dressed in most immaeulnto white. It is kept in Hterilized jura, stopped with sterilized cotton. When this bouillon has bo come absolutely free from all germs, INOCULATING GUINEA PIG. It Is inoculated by hnving the bacilli dropped in from tho point of a needle of glass and platinum. The germs multiply as vapidly as in a human 'Jjody, for tho bouillon Is kept in n warm incubator for ubout 7SJ hours, -when it may be seen to bo covered with a ghastly-looking, greenish crust, a toxin which is a hideous mass of the disease to be treated, consump tion, diphtheria or whatever has been :cultivated. It Is then injected into iguinen pigs which die and are opened nnd examined. If it is found that the toxin wud pure, it is injected into an untltoxin horse, llefore one of these horses is utilized for this purpose, he is tested to ascertain if he be free irotu all disease, by receiving an in jection of mallein, a fluid which will vtrouso into .activity any disease which may happen to lurk in his W'Jll I J II sj'stnn. Jf he be healthy, the mallein will not affect him. llelng proven healthy, the first injection of toxin, about one-half a thimbleful, or one cubic centimeter, is introduced into ills blood from :i syringe of glass and silver by a thoroughly sterilized, dlsin fected, white-clad, (denn-aliaven physi clan, in u white enameled stable. Tor three days, the horse is very ill, eat ing nothing. His bones are sore. Ho swells, then slowly recovers. In ten days, he Is quite well again, when an other injection is given, this time of three cubic centimeters. Ho becomes ill, but less so than in the first in stance. Ten days later, 20 cubic centimeters are administered. Tho effect of this is hardly perceptible. liy the end of two months, more than one pint or 600 cubic Centimeters ure given without producing any ill-ef-fects. This dose would kill a large number of ordinary horhos, but our friend bus become immune, that is, his system is able to resist any num ber of live germ:i introduced, because It contains so much of their own poison, that they have nothing to feed upon and die from an overdose of themselves. Now that this antitoxin quality ha9 developed in the animal, each month eight quarts of blood are drawn from him, while every ten days he still re ceives an injection of 500 centimeters of toxin. Thus his antitoxic power U kept up. He suffers no inconvenience. His health is good, he exercises mod erately and eats his sterilized grain with relish. If lie goes to pasture for a month or two, his antitoxic power is impaired and he hns to begin all over again with his first dose of one cubic centimeter of toxin which ren ders him ill as at first. After being drawn from the horse, the blood is sealed up and stands for several days, when the serum, "or thin portion, is extracted by menus of a force pump. This serum is used on guinea pigs and its strength thus ascertained. It is now filtered and purified, sealed in small vials and passes into the hand of physicians In .general practice, who Introduce it into the circulation of such patients as nre suffering from the special disease from whose germ it was prepared. Their systems are thus reen forced by a poison to tho germs whose demise rids them of the disease which was preying upon their tissues. While some antitoxins have been obtained with comparative ease, ex periments with typhoid germs have proven very unsatisfactory. In 1SS1 Koch discovered the bacilli of ty phoid. They are rod-like and thick ill wlW5 r WM -Ti TJ '!--W5JV"' '.fcZTJ-JH.Ti ?- wajacsffiS'asaGSS! Lgsr.iarfra.-qs.va FREEZING GERMS IN LIQUID AIR. with the ends rounded, and .some times joined in filaments. They pos sess little hair-like projections called llagella and move vory rapidly. They are found in water, milk and meats and gain ontniHce into the system by various methods. Many experiments huvo been mode to secure an antitox in from bouillon, but to nogri-at pur pose. Jt has been nearly impossible to obtain, the "juice between tho cells" of typhoid bacteria without de stroying the chemical action of germs themselves. No really satis factory results had been obtained until, recently, Dr. Allan MeKaydun, of the .leaner institute of preventive medicine, one of tho leading bac teriologists of Europe, after much research, has discovered a method of manufacturing antitoxin for typhoid which, It is generally believed, will soon bo universally adopted. Tho microscopical cellu of the typhoid bacilli are so small and pliable or elastic that no mechanical ugont could destroy them. Freezing docs not injure them. It occurred to Dr. McFaydcn to freeze the cells by means of liquid uir until very brittle, then to crush thoiiMindH of them together in a mor tar. This first and most dlflieult step has proved a great success. Tho mass now dead, so far as its power of communicating disease is concerned, Is allowed to become warm again, and Is still chemically alive as to its qualities from which antitoxin may bo prepared. llopeatod injec tions Into animals have produced a serum, which, it is believed, will prove elllcaclous. if is too soon after its discovery for a large number of experiments to hnvo demonstrated its successful use",' but results so far obtained are very promising. ' VILLARD C. APPLET-OX. A llleh Cm loh. 'Leaving college, old man'.' Going to marry and settle down?" "No; I'm going to murry uud settle up." Chappnrul. jmji i r kfi ji Jniiffi . SfiIS&SEK t jMrw B-niftjwfr AN HONEST STREAK. Which I. oil (t .Man Clinrjuccil wlih Thefl (o Tukc Iliiiiftclf to the CulfiliooMC. Humor makes ill nppenrance in queer places, but one would hardly expect lo find it nt the door of a house of correction, wiys the Milwaukee Sentinel. An unfor tunate fellow was recently taken before a justice of tho peuec in Milwaukee, clmigcd with stealing n quantity of wood. Tlicic wns not much of a defense to offer, but an attorney who knew him volun teered to say a few woids to the court in his behalf. The attorney began his talk, nnd, warm ing up to his subject ns he proceeded, finally miccccdcd in making a good pica for leniency. The justice, of course, found the prisoner guilty, but let him off with a sentence of 150 (fays in the house of cor rection. When the commitment had been made out it was discovered that there was no constable present, so the lawyer said to the prisoner: ".John, you know where the houso of correction is. don't you?" "Yes, sir. "Well, hero's five cents and this pnper. You take a ear and go out there and give them this paper and they'll let you m. Will you do it?" "Sure!" And the funny part of this story is that John kept his word. ESTIMATING EACH OTHER. SlicnvliiK Opinlniifi nn Tln'jr Mny Do Koriued from Different Point of View. "My word, Fitznoodlc," said a war of fice clerk, according to the London Ex press, to a colleague who sat a! the next dck, "just look uU that workman on the roof of thut budding over the way!" "What's the matter with him?' in quired Fitz, glancing through the window at the individual indicated. "Matter," retorted the other; "why, I've been watching the lay beggar for the last Z'i minutes, and lie hasa t done a Htroko of work all the time." At the precise moment at which i the above conversation occurred a Uritish workingman was addressing his "mate." "Sy, Hill," he remarked, in a tone of deep disgust, "d'ye see that 'ere loafin' war office chirk in that room darn there? S'elp me, if Hi ain't bin watcliin' 'im fur nigh on nrf an hower, an' the bloomer's done nothin' but stare liouot o' th' win der the 'ole blessed tyme. That's tho Bort of chap as we pyc taxes tcr keep!" m A Cure for DrojiHy. Sedgwick, Ark., June 22d.-Mr. W. S. inylor of tins place says: "My little boy had Dropsy. Two doc tors tho best in this part of the country told me he would never get better, nnd tot have seen him anyone else would hnvo said they were right. Hi feet and limbs were swollen so that he could not walk nor put on his bIiocs. "When the doctors told me he would surely die, 1 stopped giving him their med icine and began giving him Dodd's. Kidney Tills. I gave him three pills a day and at the end of eight days the swelling was all gone, hut as 1 wanted to he sure, 1 kept on with the pills for some time, gradually re ducing the quantity, till finally 1 stopped altogether. "Dodd's Kidney Pills certainly saved my child s hie. llcfore using them he wns a helpless invalid in his mother's arms from morning till night. Now he is a healthy, happy child, running and dancing nnd singing. I can ncvci1 express our gratitude. "Dodd's Kidney Pills entirely cured our boy after everybody, doctors and all. had given him up to die." A Wlilu-Sitreutl Vanity. In these days there ricem to he as many writers as there are readers. The spread of authorship nnd its egregious pride is hit off in this dialogue from the Flic gende Ulnetter: A guest at n hotel tnblc, reading the bill of faro, says: "Your bill of fare is great!" "I am glad to hear it," replies the head waiter. "1 am its author." A IIiir of Gold has immeasurable attraction for anyone. 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